Trombone
Bachelor of Music/Education with Artist Diploma in Trombone from the Eastman School of Music, where his major teacher was Emory Remington; Master of Arts in Musicology from The American University. Additional trombone study with Robert Marstellar, Lewis Van Haney, and Horst Raasch. 16 years as a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 10 as Principal Trombone. He has also been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Radio Telefis/Eireann Symphony Orchestra (Dublin, Ireland), U. S. Army Band, and Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductors included George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Frederick Fennell, Sergiu Comissiona, and David Zinman. Mr. Fetter has been a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Howard University. He is also a chamber music coach, composer, arranger, and publisher, and he conducts the Ellicott City Trombone Choir, a volunteer ensemble that welcomes new members.
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Contact: dfetter1@jhu.edu, 410 889-2277
David Fetter Studio in 2011-12
Frances Yu
Frances Yu, is currently studying with David Fetter as a 3rd year student at The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She started her musical studies on the violin at age four, and at age eleven, the trombone. Her previous teachers include Timothy Gavlik and Ben Pelletier. In her senior year of high school, she was the recipient of the John Philip Sousa Award.
At Peabody, Ms. Yu participates in numerous performing groups. She plays with the Peabody Wind ensemble, The Trombody Peabones, The Peabody Youth Orchestra, along with Eastern Edge Brass. Although her musical career has just begun, it has already taken her across the globe. Ms. Yu has participated in summer music festivals such as Music Without Borders in Balassagyarmat, Hungary, the International Chamber Music Courses & Festival in Positano, Italy, and Intensive Classical Brass Workshop at New York University in New York City. Other festivals she has participated in include the International Musical Arts Youth Orchestra in Bloomington, Indiana, and the Asia Pacific Activities Council in Shanghai, China. She has also been a participant in the Southeast Asia Honor band—a festival where music students from cities all over Southeast Asia such as Jakarta, Bangkok, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Taiwan come together to form a highly advanced Wind Ensemble—from 2004 to 2009.
Ms. Yu will also be heard with the Peabody Wind Ensemble in the newly anticipated Naxos recordings of Johan de Meiji’s Symphony No. 1, “Lord of the Rings” and Symphony No. 3, “Planet Earth”, to be released in February 2012.
In the summer of 2011 Frances attended two brass programs. The Rodney Mack Philadelphia Big Brass Chamber Music Seminar, which took place at the Curtis Institute of Music, and Summer Brass Institute in Atherton, CA where she given the opportunity to play large brass ensemble repertoire and work with members of the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Frances Yu plays a Getzen 3047AF trombone with a Bach 5G mouthpiece.
Carolyn Thomas
Carolyn Thomas is entering The Peabody Institute as a freshman in the fall of 2011. She is studying in the studio of Mr. David Fetter as a trombone performance major. Before Carolyn came to Peabody, she was active in several youth ensembles, including the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and Philly Youth Orchestra’s Bravo Brass. Through the Philadelphia programs, Ms. Thomas was able to work with several members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was also a member of the Atlantic Youth Orchestra playing cello.
Carolyn has studied with Paul Bryan at the Curtis Institute, Cathy Bridge of the Ocean City Pops, as well as Samuel Chen, principal trombonist of the Knoxville Symphony. Carolyn began studying trombone at age nine, and has kept playing ever since. She has won several awards such as the John Phillip Sousa Award in 2007, has played in numerous honors ensembles, and in the spring of 2011 placed in a concerto competition with the Ocean City Pops, being invited to solo with the pops orchestra.
Over the summers, Carolyn enjoys working at the New York Summer Music Festival located in Oneonta, New York. There she performs in many ensembles ranging from classical orchestra to select jazz ensembles. Ms. Thomas looks forward to an exciting and fulfilling year here at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
Carolyn's instrument is a Bach Stradivarius 42BO with a Conn Umi 5G mouthpiece.
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